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Declining Aral Sea: Satellite Images Highlight Dramatic Retreat
July 10, 2009 — New Envisat images highlight the dramatic retreat of the Aral Sea's shoreline from 2006 to 2009. The Aral Sea was once the world's fourth-largest inland body of water, but it has been steadily ... > full story -
World's First 'Self-Watering' Desert Plant: Desert Rhubarb
July 1, 2009 — Researchers have managed to make out the "self-irrigating" mechanism of the desert rhubarb, which enables it to harvest 16 times the amount of water than otherwise expected for a plant in this region ... > full story -
Desert Dust Alters Ecology Of Colorado Alpine Meadows
June 29, 2009 — Accelerated snowmelt -- precipitated by desert dust blowing into the mountains -- changes how alpine plants respond to seasonal climate cues that regulate their life cycles, according to a new study. ... > full story -
Water Webs: Connecting Spiders, Residents In The Southwest
June 29, 2009 — If you are a cricket and it is a dry season on the San Pedro River in Arizona, on your nighttime ramblings to eat leaves, you are more likely to be ambushed by thirsty wolf spiders. A potential ... > full story -
Drinking Water From Air Humidity
June 5, 2009 — Not a plant to be seen, the desert ground is too dry. But the air contains water, and research scientists have found a way of obtaining drinking water from air humidity. The system is based ... > full story -
Satellite Used To Unearth Innovation In Crop Forecasting
May 26, 2009 — NASA researchers are using satellite data to deliver a kind of space-based humanitarian assistance. They are cultivating the most accurate estimates of soil moisture -- the main determinant of crop ... > full story -
Wind, Salt And Water Are Leading Indicators Of Land Degradation In Abu Dhabi Desert Lands
May 6, 2009 — The desert lands of Abu Dhabi are subjected to various land degradation stresses, including wind erosion, salinization, waterlogging, landfilling and overgrazing. Sustaining these lands has become an ... > full story -
Scorpion Biodiversity Seen In 'Evolution Canyon'
April 9, 2009 — Scorpions possess resistance to high temperatures and the ability to conserve water for long periods of time, and as a result thrive in hot and arid parts of the world. But is this global ... > full story -
Rising Sea Levels Will Lead To 'Relocation, Relocation, Relocation': Math Could Address Climate Change Population Concerns
April 1, 2009 — As sea levels rise in the wake of climate change and semi-arid regions turn to desert, people living in those parts of the world are likely to be displaced. Mathematicians have worked out a new ... > full story -
Ecologists Question Effects Of Climate Change On Infectious Diseases
April 1, 2009 — Recent research has predicted that climate change may expand the scope of human infectious diseases. A new review, however, argues that climate change may have a negligible effect on pathogens or ... > full story
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